NEW—@Time reports on ~200 workers at @Google’s DeepMind — a British-American artificial intelligence research laboratory — who signed a letter calling on the tech giant to drop its contract with military organizations.
The letter calls on DeepMind’s leaders to:
1. Investigate allegations that militaries and weapons manufacturers are Google Cloud users
2. Terminate access to DeepMind technology for military users
3. Set up a new governance body responsible for preventing DeepMind technology form being used by military giants in the future.
GOOGLE HAS DONE NONE OF THESE THINGS.
The militarization of the tech industry has grown exponentially over the last few decades, powering state violence, imperialism, and genocide. Project Nimbus, Google’s $1B cloud contract with Israel that is powering the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, is the direct result of the tech industry’s sharp investment in militarism. Google and Amazon continue to pursue lucrative military contracts with no regard for human life. Google and Amazon tech powers state violence from the U.S. to Palestine, but we did not join Google or Amazon to work for military contractors or to create “warfare” technology.
That’s why we won’t stop organizing until our companies drop Project Nimbus, stop powering the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, and until Palestine is free.
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